Sunday, September 21, 2008

Looking Glass Boutique Autumn/Winter 2008

I pimped the Looking Glass Boutique Store when they were having a sale a few months ago, but now they've put their Autumn/Winter collection up on the site, and I'm once again smitten! Here are a couple of my favourite outfits:

I want to go to soirees in this dress at Christmas.

Holy pattern-mixing, Batman! I hope the blue of the dress is as rich in real life, because it looks pretty spectacular here.

I thought that I didn't really like skirts with built-in braces, but I guess I was just sick of the overly-hip, overly-skinny ones from H&M (if I see one more person wearing one in this city...), because the cream one here is divine. And accessorising with a brooch always makes me swoon!

I've saved my favourite for last. Look, my favourite outfit involves trousers! And what a pair of trousers they are... The frills! The bows! The foppish aesthetic of it all! I'm just going to go and drool over here in the corner for a while.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Daily Outfit: Le Nouveau Beret

I love berets, though all of mine seem to have mysteriously disappeared over the summer. I bought a knitted one in H&M yesterday to see me through the autumnal weather (I'll have to switch to my hat with ear flaps in a month or two, I think), and ended up looking pretty artsy today.


Skirt & Shoes & Tights & Necklace - Penney's/Primark
Top & Beret - H&M
Cardigan - Second-Hand Shop
Coat - Dorothy Perkins


The other day a magazine told me that I couldn't possibly wear a beret if I wanted to be cool. Pish-posh! A quick poke around Flickr turns up these three lovely ladies, among many others, who are probably as cool as they come. Well, by my definition of cool, anyway.

Hrabina von Tup Tup


sunshine noir


rachaelnw

So, berets - supremely cool or a huge faux-pas?

Monday, September 15, 2008

Love for Links

Vulgar Moon got a mention in the Irish Times Magazine this weekend! A very small mention, mind you, but it still made me grin.

And now, a smattering of nice links for you all, as I've spent the weekend being very unfashionable (but very happy) - hanging out in IKEA and playing Animal Crossing on my DS!


Anyone have any interesting links of their own to share?

Thursday, September 11, 2008

On Being A Girl

Sometimes I get very sick of dressing like a girly girl. I'm a bit of a closet feminist (though I don't even like the term, and all the post-post-post-post-blah-blah-blah feminism around these days confuses me), and looking into my wardrobe these days is putting me in danger of using phrases like "heteronormative", "gender roles", and who knows what else. I suddenly want, with all my heart, all of my ugly clothes that I left at home. I'm going to the Red Cross tomorrow to look for some ridiculous jumpers. Unless this mood has passed by then.

On a vaguely-related train of thought, everyone in this city is much too cool. What happened to fun clothes? At least I have hel-looks to cheer me up.


"Last time I wore a dress when I was 5 years old. I cried because I hated it so much."


"I have a blue period now. Last summer I wore only violet, last year yellow-and-black. I love colours."


"We are dressed up as Teletubbies."

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Initial Pins

Lately I've been completely obsessed with finding one of these kinds of inital brooches:


Marcine



IBeliveInUnicorns


My searches, however, have all been in vain! Is there anyone out there who can ease my misery and let me know where I can find one? Will I just have to hope fortune turns up something in a second-hand shop, or are they fairly easy to come by?

Daily Outfit: Tiny Jeans and Enormous Hair

The *poof* surrounding my head is courtesy of the boyfriend, who decided to appoint himself as my personal hairstylist for the day.


Jeans - Dorothy Perkins
Jumper - Like, Love
Bow T-Shirt - A-Wear
Shoes - Penney's/Primark


I wore this today, as well as yesterday for my first university class of the semester (of which I seem to have disturbingly few - as a big nerd, I'm a little upset). I'm glad I covered up a bit, because it's really starting to feel like Autumn. There's an incredible number of trees here in Sweden, so I'm hoping for a spectacular version of my favourite season!


Vasagatan, just near the University

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Daily Outfit: Well, A Failed Daily Outfit Of Sorts




Dress - second-hand shop
Necklace & tights - Penney's
Cardigan - TK Maxx
Shoes - Doc Martens
Hat - H&M


I'm dying to do some outfit posts, you know, but my photo-taking abilities seem to be on the fritz lately. My self-objectification skills just aren't up to scratch.
I thought I'd share a couple of rather lame pictures I've taken recently, anyway. I'm pretty sure most of you readers are fashion bloggers yourselves, and well aware of how annoying it is when pictures just won't come out right.

I'm also dying to buy a whole ton of new clothes, as I'm already starting to get sick of the few outfits I was able to stuff into my suitcase... good thing I currently have about 30 kronor (oh, four euro or so) to last me until the end of the week!
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